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Intel® Virtualization Technology Requirements

Last Reviewed: 29-Nov-2016

Article ID: 000005758

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) consists of technology components that support virtualization of platforms based on Intel® Processors, thereby enabling the running of multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions.

There are two types of virtualization:

Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)

Improves the fundamental flexibility and robustness of traditional software-based virtualization solutions by accelerating key functions of the virtualized platform, including:

Speeding up the transfer of platform control between the guest operating systems (OSs) and the virtual machine manager (VMM)/hypervisor

Enabling the VMM to uniquely assign I/O devices to guest OSs

Optimizing the network for virtualization with adapter-based acceleration